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Studying Probabilistic record linkage Robin Linacre's write-up. The clearest account of Fellegi-Sunter I have found, and it is free. Apache Ossie The semantic interchange spec, formerly OSI. A common format for what a metric actually means, across tools. Synthetic data as a design problem Google's write-up on generating datasets from first principles rather than imitating a sample. Coverage, complexity and quality as separate dials.
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Entities do not exist in the information system. They exist in the real world. Information systems store references to entities, never the entities themselves. Sep 2026 · Something I keep coming back to. · all marginalia

AI

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  • The generator is the dataset 23 September 2026
  • The name a system remembers 13 September 2026
  • What stays human 29 August 2026
  • Real Takes Time 17 August 2026
  • Alignment starts with reference 13 August 2026
  • Human machine symbiosis, sixty years on 9 August 2026
  • Remaining ThoughtFul in AI Acceleration 24 May 2026
  • Identity Is An Inference Problem 9 December 2025
  • Search is Changing (Again) 19 September 2025
  • Graph the True Data and Reality 5 June 2025
  • AI isn't Magic, its been Around 27 February 2025
  • Are We Ready for AI 1 February 2025
  • Unlocking the True Value of AI 10 October 2024
  • Is Your Data Ready for AI 8 October 2024
Paradox of the month The ship of Theseus Replace every plank of a ship, one at a time, and you have a ship made of entirely new material. Is it the same ship? Now rebuild the original from … all paradoxes
Question · maths Similarity is not transitive. So how does anything ever get grouped? Sep 2026 · answered
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